VN to host 7th Asia Pacific Regional Conference for Solidarity with Cuba
VGP - The 7th Asia Pacific Regional Conference for Solidarity with Cuba will be jointly organized by the Viet Nam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO) and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in Ha Noi on September 8-9.
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The event is among a series of conference following the First World Meeting Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, held in Havana in 1994, which aim to call for support for Cuba’s struggle for independence, maintaining peace and social progress.
It is the second time Viet Nam has hosted the conference, which is aimed at manifesting the Party, State and people’s support for Cuba as well as introducing the image of the nation and its people to foreigners.
Delegates at the event will discuss key issues including the role of friendship and solidarity organizations with Cuba in lifting economic and trade embargos against Cuba, measures to strengthen solidarity movements with Cuba via the mass media and exchanging experience in enhancing relations with Cuban people.
In the framework of the conference, foreign delegates are scheduled to pay courtesy visits to leaders of Vietnamese Party and State.
This Conference will is the follow-up of the six previous ones, where friends of Cuba in the Asia-Pacific region reinforced their solidarity with the Cuban revolutionary process. Within the new international context nowadays, there will be ratification of the regional support to the validity of the social justice model Cuba defends and its feasibility as an alternative for that “better and possible world” goodwill women and men are striving for.
The previous Asia Pacific Regional Conference for Solidarity with Cuba was held in Calcutta, India (1995); Hanoi, Vietnam (1997), Chennai, India (2006), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2008); Vientiane, Laos (2010) and Colombo, Sri Lanka (2012).
By Thuy Dung
